Let's return to the Arabic manzil structure (according to Wikipedia) for a while:
¹Above I have chosen the RA day for Ascella (287.9) because this star is rising first, with Nunki (288.4) half a day later. I think the star name 'Corona Borealis' at the Akleel manzil refers to Gemma (α), which in rongorongo rimes rose 236 (= 8 * 29½) days after March 21. "Bayer said of it [Corona Borealis] Azophi Parma, by which he meant that Al Sufi called it a Shield; but the majority of Arabian astronomers rendered the classical title by Al Iklīl al Shamāliyyah, which degenerated into Acliluschemali and Aclushemali, and appeared with Ulug Beg as plan Iklīl." (Allen) Ibn 'Arabi had his 17th mansion as Iklil al Jabhah:
But he appears to have regarded Corona Borealis as a part of the Libra constellation:
If his 12°51'22" Libra should refer to α Librae, then we could count from its RA day 224.2 and forward to his star at 25°42'51" in order to see if it coincides with the position of Gemma: (25.714º - 12.856º) / 360º * 365.25 = 13.0 and 224.2 + 13.0 = 237.2 = 235.7 + 1.5. I have no star close to 237.2 in my list and Ibn 'Arab may have arranged the distance to be 13.0 days in order to create more order than Mother Nature was able to offer. Or he may have thought there should be a 'leap day' at his Iklil manzil. According to the Wikipedia structure Sheratan has 14 days, but Ibn 'Arab has only 13 days in his Al Sharatain . In my list I can see that Gemma and Zuben Elakrab were rising at the same time, which could motivate the insertion of an extra day. The word sharatain means the 'two signs' (viz. the pair of stars Mesarthim and Sheratan).
Counting backwards from Zuben Elakrab (γ Librae) to Zuben Elgenubi (α Librae) there should be around (235.7 - 224.2) * 360º / 365.25 = ca 11º, not 25.714º. But Ibn 'Arab may have had a far longer Libra constellation than we.
However, this is not the place to further discuss the structure of Ibn 'Arab. |